DAY 1 - Basic concepts of cloud computing

Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model ?

• Hardware must be purchased

• Users have complete control over resources and security

• Applications can be provisioned and deprovisioned quickly

• Organizations only pay for what they use

A company is planning to create several Virtual Machines in Azure. Which of the following is the right category to which the Azure Virtual Machine belongs ?

• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

• Platform as a service (PaaS)

• Software as a service (SaaS)

• Function as a service (FaaS)

What are two characteristics of a consumption-based model ?

• no upfront costs

• requires the purchase and management of the physical infrastructure

• the ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer needed

• high capital expenditures

Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing ?

• high availability

• geo-distribution

• elimination of horizontal scaling

• physical access to servers

Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters ?

• You are only billed for what you use

• Network bandwidth is free

• Cloud service offerings have limited functionality

• Services are only offered in a single geographic location

Which cloud deployment model are you using if you have servers physically located at your organization’s on-site datacenter, and you migrate a few of the servers to the cloud ?

• Private cloud

• Public cloud

• Hybrid cloud

• Multi cloud

What is one advantage of IaaS over a SaaS model ?

• You can lower your management costs more

• You can migrate an existing application without changing it

• It's easier to take advantage of other cloud services

• It's easier to scale up and down with demand

According to the shared responsibility model, which cloud service type places the most responsibility on the customer ?

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Migration as a Service (MaaS)

What type of cloud service type would a Finance and Expense tracking solution typically be in ?

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

• Solution as a Service (SaaS)

For a software as a service (SaaS) platform, what does the customer provide ?

• Data storage

• Application data

• Application software

• Application hardware